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| | callsign_meaning = Dual meaning: San FranciscO airport code for San Francisco International Airport | affiliations = ABC News Radio Cumulus Media Networks | owner = Cumulus Media | licensee = Radio License Holdings LLC | sister_stations = KFOG, KGO, KSJO, KNBR, KSAN, KTCT | webcast = (Listen Live ) | website = (ksfo560.com ) }} KSFO is a talk radio station in San Francisco, California, USA, broadcasting on 560 kHz AM with content focusing on conservative talk. It operated under the ownership of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) until the radio group was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting in 2007. The station is now owned by Cumulus Media, following its 2011 merger with Citadel. The station's studios are in the city's SoMa district, and a transmitter is located at the end of Islais Creek where it meets the San Francisco Bay. The content of the KSFO's talk programming is conservative, with show hosts such as Mark Levin and Michael Savage.〔KSFO dropped Rush Limbaugh, effective January 3, 2012, whose show was moved to rival KNEW (AM)/KKSF NewsTalk 910.〕 The station also airs ''Red Eye Radio'' overnights. ==History== KSFO went on the air in 1925 as KTAB in Oakland, owned by the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church there. It was acquired by Wesley Dumm under the legal name The Associated Broadcasters (in order to keep the TAB backronym. KTAB offered a variety format of music, news, and sports. Just before the start of World War II, Mr. Dumm was tapped by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to use his KSFO facility to spawn international shortwave broadcast stations KWID (for Wesley I. Dumm) and KWIX. These stations became the genesis of the Voice of America. Facilities for KSFO, KWID, and KWIX were located at San Francisco's Islais Creek where the KSFO transmitter continues to operate today. Beginning in 1955, KSFO changed to a middle of the road format with some jazz, sports, and, particularly memorably, rebroadcast antique radio shows at particular times of the year. At the time, the station was owned by Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasting and called itself "The World's Greatest Radio Station." KSFO's signature jingle, "The Sound of the City" (words and music composed by Johnny Mann was sung a cappella by eight studio singers at the United Western Recorders studio in Hollywood), became legendary in San Francisco—reportedly requested by listeners as much as any popular song on the station's playlist — and was subsequently adopted by other like-formatted stations around the country. For the next two decades, KSFO was the most listened-to station in the San Francisco - Oakland market. It was the home of singers like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin and Tony "Mr. San Francisco" Bennett. Memorable broadcasters of KSFO's history include sportscasters Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, newscasters Aaron Edwards and Mike Powell, and disc jockeys Don Sherwood, Carter B. Smith, Al "Jazzbeau" Collins, Jim Lange, Gene Nelson, John Gilliland, Dan Sorkin and Jim Eason. The station's history included stints as the flagship station for both San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics baseball (at different times) and San Francisco 49ers, University of California and Stanford University football. A history of KSFO in the heyday of Don Sherwood (1950s and 1960s) can be found in Laurie Harper's biography, "Don Sherwood — The World's Greatest Disk Jockey." The station's news department earned national and international journalism awards for coverage of the Peoples Temple mass suicides in Jonestown, Guyana〔Tony Russomanno, quoted in The Poynter Institute, (''Thursday Edition: Clearing Kool-Aid's Name'' ). Retrieved January 14, 2007.〕 and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by former Supervisor Dan White. Newscasters, sportscasters, and DJs from KSFO played an annual softball game to benefit the Police Athletic League; the No-Stars' arch-rivals were Reno Barsocchini's VIPs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KSFO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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